WARNING ABOUT BACKBITTING AND TALE-BEARING Warning about backbitting Praise be to Allah, who united the believers in a bond of brotherhood, exhorting them on cooperation, goodness, righteousness and mutual respect as regards ones property and honour. O people! Muslims now suffer from two rampant diseases, though immunity from them is easy for those who are protected by Allah. These two diseases are backbitting and tale-bearing. Backbitting denotes maligning a person, speaking evil about any of his characteristics or his deeds. Many of us today are not free from indulgence in backbitting people and criticizing them, despiten the fact that those backbiters themselves are not free from faults and blemishes; rather they harm themselves and those who listen to their reports without denouncing them. O Muslims! Your duty when you hear others backbiter your brothers and sisters is to be earnest to forbid the backbiter and defend the honors of Muslims, just as the case when you find a man eating from the flesh of a dead body. Allah the Almighty said what means: O you who believe! Avoid suspicion as much as possible: for suspicion in some cases is a sin: and spy not on each other, nor speak ill of each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? O you who declared faith with your tongues, but your hearts are not imbued with faith! Do not backbite others, and do not search for their faults, for if anyone searches for their faults, Allah will search for his fault, and if Allah searches for the fault of anyone, He disgraces and expose him or her in pubic.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:05:48 +0000
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